“I would love to be an ambassador for Baylor, to show my school pride, but it’s hard to do that,” Griner writes.

“I’ve spent too much of my life being made to feel like there’s something wrong with me. And no matter how much support I felt as a basketball player at Baylor, it still doesn’t erase all the pain I felt there.”

Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey embraces Griner during the NCAA college basketball tournamenSource:AP

The Valentine’s Day incident happened in Griner’s sophomore year and she says it made for a source of tension over her final two years at the school.

Mulkey argued she was toeing the company line. The school has a statement on its website that reads: “Christian churches across the ages and around the world have affirmed purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman as the biblical norm.”

Regardless, Griner said she did not feel accepted by Mulkey.

“I feel like the people who run the school want it both ways: they want to keep the policy, so they can keep selling themselves as a Christian university, but they are more than happy to benefit from the success of their gay athletes,” Griner writes.